SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 15. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife and candidate for re-election for the PSOE, Pedro Martín, has held a working meeting with representatives of the Tenerife Island Mountaineering Federation in which he has promised to work for the safety of mountaineers with the regulation of climbing and canyoning areas.
The relationship throughout this term between the Cabildo and the Federation has been constant, a formula that will be repeated for the next four years, picks up a note from the Socialists.
The Cabildo is carrying out the study of climbing and canyoning areas in order to regulate this activity given the great existing demand.
Thus, the analysis of demand points and authorized points is carried out, as well as assessing their viability for conservation reasons.
The regulation and conservation of deteriorated routes or those that affect particularly fragile areas are also on the agenda of actions to be taken into account during the next mandate, as well as the safety conditions of those who practice this sport.
In this way, work has been carried out jointly on the preparation of the application and web portal ‘Tenerife On’ that the Cabildo de Tenerife has launched this socialist management mandate.
From this application, anyone has at their disposal all the necessary information to enjoy leisure in the protected natural areas of Tenerife free of charge.
In addition to an information portal, this platform aims to become the reference means of protection, awareness and communication between the Cabildo and people who want to enjoy nature leisure on the island, both locals and visitors.
For its preparation, the contributions of the federation have been taken into account, including its proposals that include measures and the safety model on trails to be added to the application; routes recommended by the federation and routes to exclude; evaluation of the difficulty of the trails according to the system applied by the federation (MIDE system) and, among others, essential information to put on the website, according to the federation itself.
Likewise, the Federation monitors certain trails whose status it supervises and notifies incidents, since it is the competent group to offer the name and number of trails to be approved, as established by Decree 11/2005, which creates the Canary Islands Network of Trails. and the conditions for the organization, homologation and conservation of trails in the Autonomous Community are regulated.
During the year 2023, the objective of the PSOE de Tenerife from the Cabildo is to launch a collaboration agreement between the Federation and the insular Service of Planning and Forest Projects that raises, among other issues, collaboration for safety on trails.
